MOL makes headway with safety enhancements

Measures taken to reinforce the hulls of MOL Celebration, MOL Courage, and MOL Creation were recently completed and these vessels return to the Asia-North Europe service on August 10, Mitsui OSK Lines announced on Monday.
MOL president Koichi Muto said MOL began preventative measures to enhance the safety of its six sister vessels immediately after the MOL Comfort accident in June this year.
He commented that the work done on the three containerships amounted to approximately twice that required by Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK), Japan’s classification society, which conforms to the safety standards of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS).
MOL Charisma and MOL Competence, among the three remaining three sister vessels, are already at the dockyards of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and their hull reinforcement will be completed by the end of September/beginning of October. The work for MOL Commitment will be completed by February 2014.